Restaurants
Nick Lander – aka Mr Jancis Robinson – was the Financial Times restaurant critic from 1989 to 2022. Now, every Sunday, he writes about restaurants exclusively for us, with occasional contributions from other food-obsessed members of the JancisRobinson.com team.
Restaurant reviews
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Poon's – now of Somerset House
A daughter revives memories of her parents’ much-loved Chinese restaurants. The surname Poon has long associations with the world of hospitality and Chinese cooking. From a restaurant in Macau where...
Nick Lander
Sunday 7 December 2025
• 5 min read
Nick on restaurants
Alta, an oasis of calm – for now
Nick Lander
Sunday 30 November 2025
• 1 min read
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Not strictly a restaurant review, but a look at food and drink in the air on a (very) long flight...
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Michelin stars, eel and a profusion of sakes as the cherry blossom faded. The prevailing mood of any customer arriving...
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A strong recommendation of a decidedly Italianate restaurant with rooms. These photographs taken in opposite directions could surely have been...
Nick on restaurants
Nick kicks off his review of a couple of restaurants in a famously historic Dutch city with an ode to...
Nick on restaurants
How Londoners can visit Poland without going to an airport. I initially requested a meeting with Jan Woroniecki to discuss...
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A very new neighbourhood restaurant that's a bakery and coffee shop during the day, serving items such as the pain...
Free for all
Can you take your own wine? What's the point of the tasting ritual? A version of some of these 'rules'...
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Nick wishes he'd stayed in the pub downstairs. The Public House Group is aptly named. Founded by a trio of...
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Nick’s recent trip down memory lane in London’s Soho. As I took the photo below of the restaurant’s stylish business...
Don't quote me
Heat, or lack of it, was a theme this month. February is meant to be a short month, and we...
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The northern home of Manchester United and Manchester City is now a mecca for the hungry. See also Jancis's report...
Nick on restaurants
Oranges plucked from the tree, tajines, pigeon pastillas, donkeys and suede jackets made to measure for a song. What's not...
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Three surprising restaurants in Estelle Manor, an ambitious, newish establishment outside Oxford. We feel very favourably towards the (very) private...
Nick on restaurants
13 February 2025 This week’s Throwback Thursday – a reminder to spare a thought for those tasked with providing hospitality...
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An East London restaurant with a strong wine bent and an unusual front-of-house partnership. Above, Charlie Sims and Honey Spencer...
Nick on restaurants
Nick interviews the man who buys wine for the 5,000 to 6,000 customers fed by Caprice Holdings every night. Above...